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Foggy Pacifica

Posted on | February 7, 2010 | 3 Comments

Foggy Evening, Pacifica, California

Foggy Evening, Pacifica, California

As with the Point Reyes National Seashore post, I’m going to be posting some older images in the coming days. I didn’t have a blog back then so it should be fun to take a trip down memory lane. Anyway…

This photo was taken up the street from my apartment. I had lived at this location for over a year by this point but never realized that just a few blocks up the street was this amazing view of the San Mateo coastline. Living close to the Pacific Ocean in Northern California is an awesome experience, but also very aggravating in some ways. Every morning for instance, my windows would be covered in a layer of fog and would be difficult to keep clear because it was usually cold, windy and moist outside at all hours of the day. As you can imagine, the car starts to get dirty at some point and then I’d have to take it to the car wash. The problem was that it would get back dirty again by the next day. If I had the luxury of parking the car in a garage then perhaps it might not have been so bad but I think most others probably had similar issues.

The positives far outweighed the negatives though. Within a few miles of driving, one could easily escape the urban life and do serious nature photography. Wilderness areas in the Bay Area aren’t thrashed like they are in Southern California. Most trees don’t have carvings in there, you don’t see a lot of graffiti outside of man-made structures and there aren’t beer cans and potato chip wrappers lining every river bed. Also, San Francisco was so easy to get to. I was just a 15 minute BART ride away from downtown, or an equally as short drive provided that there were parking spaces available.

Bay Area residents have the best of both worlds in my opinion.

See more of my SF Bay Area pictures.

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3 Responses to “Foggy Pacifica”

  1. Steve Sieren
    February 7th, 2010 @ 2:57 pm

    It’s always nice to revisit the past and you are very lucky to have lived in such a place.

  2. Richard Wong
    February 8th, 2010 @ 3:44 pm

    Thanks Steve. Yeah I miss living up there.

  3. Mindy
    February 11th, 2010 @ 5:12 pm

    Oh how I miss sunsets on the coast.

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